The gentleman's stable directory; or, modern system of farriery. Comprehending The Present entire improved Mode of Practice: Likewise All the most valuable Prescriptions and approved Remedies, accurately proportioned and properly adapted to every known Disease to which the Horse is incident. Interspersed with Occasional Remarks upon the dangerous and almost obsolete Practice of Gibson, Bracken, Bartlet, Osmer, and Others. Also Directions for Feeding, Bleeding, Purging and getting into Condition for the Chase. To which are now added, useful instructions for buying and selling; with an appendix, containing experimental observations upon the management of draft horses, their Blemishes and Defects. Inscribed To Sir John Lade, Bart. By William Taplin, Surgeon.
- Taplin, William, 1740?-1807.
- Date:
- 1788
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for G. Kearsley, At Johnson's Head, NO. 46, In Fleet Street, 1788.
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xxiii,[1],448p. ; 80.
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Edition
The sixth edition, corrected, improved, and considerably enlarged.
References note
ESTC N18164
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